Menachem Daum
Producer/Director
Menachem Daum is co-producer and co-director, with Oren Rudavsky, of the Emmy nominated A Life Apart: Hasidism in America. For years he has been conducting an oral history project among elderly survivors of the Holocaust and has written extensively on the subject. Also research director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College for more than 12 years, Daum produced and directed In Care Of, also Emmy nominated, about the dilemmas facing families caring for the elderly, and Stay Tuned: The Challenge of Hearing Loss for the National Institute of Health. Early in life, Daum pursued Talmudic studies at Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem. He went on to receive a master’s degree from Fairfield University and a PhD in Educational Psychology from Fordham University. He and his wife, Rifka, have lived in the Hasidic neighborhood of Boro Park, Brooklyn, for the past 36 years.